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October



Medical laboratory science event helps provide important blood typing information

Sarah holding a blood type sample.

11/28/2023

On Nov. 27, students in the Medical Laboratory Science program in the College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM) offered a free blood typing event in the Sciences Center Laboratory building.

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Dean Thomas shares impactful and bold accomplishments of COSAM with Auburn Trustee

Dean Thomas and Board of Trustee Member Jimmy Sanford

11/21/2023

On Friday, Nov. 17, with a backdrop of white tailgate tents, Auburn University Board of Trustee Member James H. Sanford visited the College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM).

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Annual Schneller Frontiers Lecturer shares research on separating proteins with research links to historical figures

Left to right: Paul Ohno, Christy F. Landes and Chris Grieco. Ohno and Grieco presented Landes with the Schneller Frontiers Lecture plaque.

11/21/2023

Christy F. Landes, the Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, spoke to a packed room on Nov. 16 at 3:45 p.m. for the annual Schneller Frontiers Lecture. Her talk, Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces, spoke about a topic of an imaging method for solving problems in chromatographic separations also known as separation science--originally researched in the 1950s but now becoming more feasible to solve. 

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Don't miss the December 5 Science Cafe at Botanic

Science Cafe on Dec. 5

11/21/2023

Join us for an exciting evening of geological exploration at Botanic, hosted by COSAM Outreach and the Department of Geosciences! On Tuesday, December 5 at 6 pm, we invite you to delve into the fascinating natural history of Alabama.

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Congratulations to this year's winners of DMS graduate student fellowships and those who received teaching and research citations.

11/17/2023

Congratulations to this year's winners of DMS graduate student fellowships and those who received teaching and research citations. Baskervill Fellowship: Nicholas Gaubatz, Li Zhou (from left to right)                    Bennett Fellowship: Sean Grate     Fitzpatrick Fellowship: Haley Pavlis   Haynsworth Fellowship: Rui Shi   Logan Fellowship: Toan Huynh, Hewan Shemtaga   (from left to right)                         Research Citation: Haile Gilroy,  Isabel Harris, Zulaihat Hassan, Ukamaka Nnyaba   (from left to right)              Teaching Citation: Ryann Firestine, Haile Gilroy, Josey Graves, Isabel Harris, Evan Leonard, Colby Muir                    

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DMS graduate student DeLeo wins first place and a $200 prize in the COSAM Graduate Student Research Forum's 3 Minute Research Competition

11/14/2023

Congratulations to DMS graduate student Jared DeLeo for winning first place and a $200 prize in the COSAM Graduate Student Research Forum's 3 Minute Research Competition.  

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Melinda Lanius twists and tangles excitement for mathematics through a Math Carnival in Huntsville

Melinda Lanius

11/07/2023

Thousands of people attended the third annual STEAM Fest on Oct. 28 hosted by the Alabama Science Festival at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville. Melinda Lanius, assistant professor, conducted outreach at the event representing Auburn University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. 

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Auburn astrophysicist explains what 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid could contain

Sample of Asteroid Bennu

11/07/2023

NASA announced that the sample it collected from asteroid Bennu contains both carbon and water, which could unlock the building blocks of life on Earth.

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DMS's Zalik to speak at Computational‐Physical Chemistry Seminar

11/06/2023

Richard Zalik will be the speaker at the Computational‐Physical Chemistry Seminar. The title is "Multiresolution approximation and the Fock operator." The seminar is on Tuesday, November 7, at 4:00pm. The seminar is a hybrid, i.e., in‐person @ CB 156/virtual.

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